Apple Watch heart monitor app cleared despite fears over GP workloads

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GPs say the app could increase pressure on doctors having to deal with patients alerted by their phone to possible heart issues.

"From everything from the results and how they are conveyed to the consumer, throughout the process, we thought through how to make this a conversation starter between the patient and the physician."

The tech industry has always hoped that the growth of so-called wearables for health and fitness would ease the burden on doctors. She said:"As a busy general practitioner my worry is that this new technology is going to cause anxiety in fit, healthy patients and it is going to cause them to come and see their GP at a time that it's not really necessary.

"But just because your phone tells you you have an irregular heartbeat it's not necessarily the case."The news comes in the week that Apple hasAnd while Apple's chief operating officer reassured watch users about the security of their personal medical information, he warned the tech industry it needed to do more on its customers' privacy.

 

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